In the 19th century, after the Meiji Restoration and learning from Western advanced technology and development models, Japan's comprehensive strength was rapidly improved. Under the influence of militarist ideology, Japan brazenly launched wars of aggression against foreign countries in the last century, occupying the territory of other countries by force and frantically plundering all kinds of resources, thus solving Japan's huge shortcomings as an island country in terms of geographical location and natural resources.
Japan's 14 years of aggression against China have brought great damage to China, with more than 35 million ancestors killed by the Japanese army and countless property losses. Countless people have lost their homes and loved ones, and this pain cannot be repaired. Due to the influence of militarism, some women in Japan, in order to inspire those soldiers on the front line, took the initiative to marry these Japanese soldiers, and even took the initiative to come to the front line to serve as comfort women.
Not only that, when these Japanese troops invaded more than ten countries in Asia, they also wantonly plundered innocent local women as comfort women, and the methods were brutal and inhumane, and many women were tortured to death. Those who survived also lived in the shadows for the rest of their lives. Unit 731 of the Japanese army also captured innocent people for biological and chemical weapons experiments. Japan's 100th unit is also secretly conducting various bacteriological experiments. The crimes committed by the Japanese army invading China one after another are simply too numerous to list.
Many years after the end of World War II, the Japanese authorities tried to falsify history, refusing to admit the crime of aggression against China, denying the Nanjing Massacre, and not apologizing or acknowledging their behavior, which made people extremely angry. Although the Japanese government maintains such an extremely wrong attitude, there are many people in Japan who are committed to uncovering the truth of those years and hope to atone for their past actions.
One of them, Hondo Ritaro, was also a member of the Japanese army that invaded China, and when he was young, he also regarded everything proposed by the Japanese emperor as the truth, and came to the Chinese battlefield. However, when he saw the indiscriminate killing of innocent people by the Japanese army, he doubted his former faith. During the invasion, Hondorytaro followed his unit to a village to sweep around, and in one house, a man knelt on the ground and kowtowed, begging the Japanese not to kill him, as well as his pregnant wife.
At that time, Hondorytaro was still a recruit, and then the commander smiled, handed the bayonet to Hondorytaro, and asked him to kill the man and exercise his courage. He was terrified, but under pressure, he finally obeyed the orders of his superiors and killed the innocent man, and the pregnant woman was assassinated by his teammates. At this point, his faith completely collapsed. It turns out that this is not a just battle, but aggression, a massacre.
Hondorytaro, who instantly came to his senses, experienced this incident, and when he later fired on the battlefield, he began to shoot empty guns into the air. It was not until many years after the end of World War II that Hondorataro returned to China, hoping to atone for their sins by finding the graveyard of the couple. With the help of others, the couple's grave was finally found, and he knelt down to repent.
Over the years, Hondo Ritaro has traveled to China many times to kneel in front of heroic monuments everywhere to repent. Donate money and materials to the local area to express your repentance. All this fully proves the cruel history of the beginning, and also reminds the world of the harm caused by war.